Twenty Years After Katrina: Preparing for the Next Storm - Conservative Angle

Twenty Years After Katrina: Preparing for the Next Storm - Conservative Angle

This month marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi, Louisiana, and much of the Gulf Coast. For those of us who lived through it, […] Source The post Twenty Years After Katrina: Preparing for the Next Storm appeared first on Conservative Angle | Conservative Angle - Conservative News Clearing House

Celebrated Writer Matt Labash Looks Back on Hurricane Katrina 20 Years Later

By Drew Taylor (WIAT) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  — Matt Labash has always had a way with words. Whether it be his seminal profile of political operator Roger Stone, a chance fly fishing trip he took with former Vice President Dick Cheney or the time he and Christopher Hitchens bribed an Iraqi driver to get them into Kuwait, the celebrated longform storyteller has long had a penchant for condensing a feeling or place into a line or two, all in his own sty…

In New Orleans, memories of Katrina remain vivid 20 years later - TPR: The Public's Radio

New Orleans residents reflect on rebuilding their lives 20 years after Hurricane Katrina. The post In New Orleans, memories of Katrina remain vivid 20 years later appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.

Vicksburg Remembers Katrina: Twenty years after landfall, Vicksburg residents look back on the storm’s impact and the compassion that followed - The Vicksburg Post

Katrina first made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. And while Vicksburg didn’t receive the brunt of the Category five storm like the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which was decimated, or massive flooding that ensued in New Orleans after the storm surge overtopped the city’s levee system, the River City was affected by the outer bands of the storm. Trees were blown down, hundreds lost power and life was lost. Now 20 years later, locals share what they rememb…